It's a term that
Steve Souders uses to describe intentionally splitting web page resources across multiple domains to make pages load faster.
Steve Souders has done extensive research on improving front-end performance of website. He has
shared his findings on "domain sharding":
- Most of the U.S. top ten web sites do domain sharding.
- The optimal number of domains to shard across is 2-4. After 4 domains, response time degrades
- Domain sharding is especially useful for older browsers as they are restricted to just two parallel downloads per hostname. The newer browsers however do better. Opera 9+ and Safari 3+ do four downloads per hostname. Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3, and Chrome 1+ do six downloads per hostname.
Also see:
HOW TO improve the front-end performance of a websiteHOW TO speed up a ASP.NET AJAX web app
Related Posts :
HOW TO access web pages faster on a slow Internet connectionDisable IFRAME based adsDisable Flash based ads. These ads suck up a lot of bandwidth. It's easy to enable/disable add-ons like the Flash pl… Read More...
HOW TO avoid the IE Information Bar during developmentIf you have ever tried opening a web page that contains JavaScript directly instead of from your web server in newer versions of IE, you may… Read More...- State of Internet in IndiaAs per stats released by The Internet Governance Forum, India has 81 million Internet users. These figures however don't tally with other es… Read More...
- Pros & Cons of various C# Collection classesThe System.Collections and System.Collections.Specialized namespaces contain about a dozen Collection classes. How do you decide which one i… Read More...
- Plain English Explanation for Non-GeeksExplaining Internet terms like Podcasting, Phishing Scams, Social Media, Twitter, Blogs, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking, Wikis, RSS t… Read More...